Perhaps besting Bozo as the best-known clown on television is Krusty the Clown. One of the most popular characters on the animated series The Simpsons, Herschel Schmoeckel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky (as he was born) is an unlikely clown. He is a cigarette-smoking bender-prone cynic with a pacemaker who often finds himself in various predicaments, many of his own making—such as running up a gambling debt to mobsters and cheating on his taxes. Through it all, however, Bart and Lisa Simpson remain devoted fans. Rumors that Krusty would be killed off in 2014 thankfully never came to pass.